Roles of Public Opinion Research in Canadian Government

In recent years, Canada's federal government has spent over $20 million on public opinion research. This is enough to purchase more than five hundred polls and focus group studies ... All this opinion research is important in its own right for informing governments about the public's views. It is also important because it relates to a fundamental question about democracy: what sort of connection exists between the preferences of citizens and the decisions made by governments? ...Page, Christopher is the author of 'Roles of Public Opinion Research in Canadian Government', published 2006 under ISBN 9780802093776 and ISBN 0802093779.